Qualifying federal predicate offense

OR · 18usc924:predicate

Government must establish commission of a qualifying crime; legal qualification is distinct from proving the crime facts. The alternatives are the drug-felony definition in (c)(2) and the surviving elements clause in (c)(3)(A). The invalid residual clause is not an alternative.

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for which the person may be prosecuted in a court of the United States
Source: docroot/ir/usc/title18.jsonl#title18_sec924; Unicode character offsets [4561:4631] (end exclusive); SHA-256 899fad466e76614e7f7b0bb794089010ef0af034312bcd194c76394228dbfdc4.

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